Our science is complex, but the focus is clear: we do it for you!

June 27, 2023 | News

Your nutritional needs are as unique as you are. They depend on things like your genes, microbes, and environment. We focus on understanding how these individualities affect the way nutrition works to address some of our most common medical concerns like cancer, heart...

Kohlmeier Co-edited Textbook selected as Core Title in Nutrition

June 15, 2023 | Kohlmeier News, News

Martin Kohlmeier’s book, Principles of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics: Fundamentals for Individualized Nutrition, co-edited with Raffaele de Caterina and Alfredo Martinez, is among the books selected for Doody’s Core Titles in Health Sciences for 2023. This list...

Future Directions in Choline Symposium

June 12, 2023 | News

Understanding the eating behaviors of SNAP recipients in larger bodies during COVID-19

June 2, 2023 | Goode News, News

Living in a food-insecure household may increase the risk for disordered eating. Assistant Professor Rachel Goode, whose interests in social work and eating disorders converge at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute, has published a research article on the...

Her childhood in India – and parenthood – changed this nutrition expert’s eating habits

May 25, 2023 | News, Voruganti News

This story originally appeared on the American Heart Association News website. These days, Saroja Voruganti, an associate professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, prefers a balanced diet that emphasizes “whole” foods and...

Epidemiology: The story of disease.

May 22, 2023 | May News, News

Every good story includes the “5 Ws”: who, what, where, when, and why. In studying how disease begins and remains in a population, we’re writing the story of that disease, and we use the same technique. Understanding the various approaches to the “5 Ws” of a given...